Comment Re:What's the upside? (Score 1) 18
All I can imagine is that all of these videos will be complete garbage just like the large number of AI generated Chinese "product review" videos on Youtube.
Comment Re:#StayTheFuckHome (Score 1) 425
False. It's antifreeze (Ethylene glycol, the yellow/green stuff that goes in your radiator) that tasks sweet and can kill. Windshield washing fluid would taste disgusting.
Comment This makes me a little happy (Score 4, Interesting) 251
I want to love visiting jalopnik.com but they make it very unpleasant when every other story is some repost from jezebel or some other anti Trump or anti internal combustion engine story. If it's a automotive site, or a sports site, keep the political b.s. out of it. I don't care or need to know what your political opinion is. If I want to see that I know where to find it. Sometimes when the company atmosphere is toxic you have got to clean it out...
Comment Donald J. Trump (Score 2, Insightful) 308
None of these democratic candidates should be voted into office. They will do horrible things to this country. President Trump is finally putting American’s interests first. He has undone what Obama did on his apology tour. He is standing up to China. He is calling the swamp rats out for what they are—rats. You may disagree with how “presidential” he is but we needed a bully like him to draw attention to how putrid the Washington swamp has become. I’m sure I will get flamed by all the radicals here that want to fundamentally change this country but you all forget that you live in the best place, in the best time in the history of this planet. These democrats want to restrict your freedoms, restrict the free economy. It will ruin everything.
Comment Re:ahhh jeez... (Score 3, Insightful) 800
He and She. There are two. Pick one and stop confusing everyone and tricking them into calling you the wrong thing just so you can get pissed off and call everyone a bigot.
Comment Re:Merge with Dish (Score 1) 59
Really? You really think people would pay $250 a month for TV service? There is a limit to what people will spend and with online and cable tv as other options a satellite monopoly would not have resulted in double the prices. DirecTV is sucking because they can't just charge a consistent monthly fee for all months of the contract.
Comment Re:how does it work? (Score 1) 147
I came here expecting to see more outrage like this and am surprised to see very little. Who could possibly believe a centralized internet is a good idea? I 100% agree with everything you said.
Comment inconclusive studies are pointless (Score 1) 229
"Soft Drinks, Including Sugar-Free, Linked To Increased Risk of Early Death" but "experts say the study cannot prove soft drinks are a driver of an increased risk of death" but they say it's "a 17% higher risk of death" so which is it?
There's a 100% chance of death...
Comment Slack? (Score 1) 119
Where's the Slack option? Seems like a pretty big omission considering how many tech companies use it. This whole poll smells of an advertisement or market research.
Comment Re:BS (Score 1) 166
Came here to say what you've already said. Can they explain why the children in Peru are mostly super skinny? The thick fog of diesel smoke is so bad you can't even see very far most days in Lima. I don't believe this one bit. It seems like diet is to blame more than anything.
Comment Two Words (Score 1) 423
FAKE NEWS
Comment MISSLEADING HEADLINE (Score 1) 204
Another slashdot anti-Apple article. There is still a physical sim slot, two even, if you are in China.
A Look at the Dark Side of the Lives of Some Prominent YouTubers, Who Are Increasingly Saying They're Stressed, Depressed, Lonely, and Exhausted (theguardian.com) 192
Many YouTubers are finding themselves stressed, lonely and exhausted. The Guardian: For years, YouTubers have believed that they are loved most by their audience when they project a chirpy, grateful image. But what happens when the mask slips? This year there has been a wave of videos by prominent YouTubers talking about their burnout, chronic fatigue and depression. "This is all I ever wanted," said Elle Mills, a 20-year-old Filipino-Canadian YouTuber in a (monetised) video entitled Burnt Out At 19, posted in May. "And why the fuck am I so unfucking unhappy? It doesn't make any sense. You know what I mean? Because, like, this is literally my fucking dream. And I'm fucking so un-fucking-happy."
[...] The anxieties are tied up with the relentless nature of their work. Tyler Blevins, AKA Ninja, makes an estimated $500,000 every month via live broadcasts of him playing the video game Fortnite on Twitch, a service for livestreaming video games that is owned by Amazon. Most of Blevins' revenue comes from Twitch subscribers or viewers who provide one-off donations (often in the hope that he will thank them by name "on air"). Blevins recently took to Twitter to complain that he didn't feel he could stop streaming. "Wanna know the struggles of streaming over other jobs?" he wrote, perhaps ill-advisedly for someone with such a stratospheric income. "I left for less than 48 hours and lost 40,000 subscribers on Twitch. I'll be back today... grinding again." There was little sympathy on Twitter for the millionaire. But the pressure he described is felt at every level of success, from the titans of the content landscape all the way down to the people with channels with just a few thousand subscribers, all of whom feel they must be constantly creating, always available and responding to their fans.
"Constant releases build audience loyalty," says Austin Hourigan, who runs ShoddyCast, a YouTube channel with 1.2 million subscribers. "The more loyalty you build, the more likely your viewers are to come back, which gives you the closest thing to a financial safety net in what is otherwise a capricious space." When a YouTuber passes the 1 million subscribers mark, they are presented with a gold plaque to mark the event. Many of these plaques can be seen on shelves and walls in the background of presenters' rooms. In this way, the size of viewership and quantity of uploads become the main markers of value.
[...] The anxieties are tied up with the relentless nature of their work. Tyler Blevins, AKA Ninja, makes an estimated $500,000 every month via live broadcasts of him playing the video game Fortnite on Twitch, a service for livestreaming video games that is owned by Amazon. Most of Blevins' revenue comes from Twitch subscribers or viewers who provide one-off donations (often in the hope that he will thank them by name "on air"). Blevins recently took to Twitter to complain that he didn't feel he could stop streaming. "Wanna know the struggles of streaming over other jobs?" he wrote, perhaps ill-advisedly for someone with such a stratospheric income. "I left for less than 48 hours and lost 40,000 subscribers on Twitch. I'll be back today... grinding again." There was little sympathy on Twitter for the millionaire. But the pressure he described is felt at every level of success, from the titans of the content landscape all the way down to the people with channels with just a few thousand subscribers, all of whom feel they must be constantly creating, always available and responding to their fans.
"Constant releases build audience loyalty," says Austin Hourigan, who runs ShoddyCast, a YouTube channel with 1.2 million subscribers. "The more loyalty you build, the more likely your viewers are to come back, which gives you the closest thing to a financial safety net in what is otherwise a capricious space." When a YouTuber passes the 1 million subscribers mark, they are presented with a gold plaque to mark the event. Many of these plaques can be seen on shelves and walls in the background of presenters' rooms. In this way, the size of viewership and quantity of uploads become the main markers of value.
Comment Re: 8K content? (Score 1) 218
HAHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahahaha!!!!
Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) 677
Presto Vivace shares a report from The Week with the caption, "And they wonder why some of us prefer to shop online." From the report: Surveillance systems at more than 46 malls in California are capturing license plate information that is fed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported Tuesday. One company, Irvine Company Retail Properties, operates malls all over the state using a security network called Vigilant Solutions. Vigilant shares data with hundreds of law enforcement agencies, insurance companies, and debt collectors -- including ICE, which signed a contract with the security company earlier this year, reports The Verge. "[Irvine Company] is putting not only immigrants at risk, but invading the privacy of its customers by allowing a third-party to hold onto their data indefinitely," EFF wrote in its report, urging the chain of malls to stop providing information to ICE.
